A discussion of Manny Vega's work
n other circles, he is admired for exquisitely intricate beaded banners festooned with coins, feathers and photos, attesting to various rites of passage in his religion, which he adopted in 1985 during a trip to Brazil.
His love for Brazil — triggered, he said, by watching “Black Orpheus” on Channel 13 in the early ’80s — drew him to a Brazilian dance class in New York, where he met Ana Araiz, whom he later married. She was a teacher who eventually became a noted promoter of tropical music concerts at the club Sounds of Brazil in Manhattan. She, too, would come to be initiated into Candomblé.
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